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'Shine a Light' (Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones concert film)
Tribune movie criticSTONES. SCORSESE. IMAX. The ads for the new Rolling Stones concert picture "Shine a Light" come at you like a three-way heavyweight title bout. There's also an undeniably corporate air to the packaging: three well-known brands converging for an event,...Tags: Rock and Roll, Movies, IMAX, Buddy Guy, Mick Jagger
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Rolling Stones ignite the screen in 'Shine a Light'
Sun Movie Critic(A-) Shine a Light has two maestros, Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, and once they begin to mesh, around the third or fourth song, they put on a display of showmanship that erases the line between art and entertainment. The great rock and roll bands...Tags: Rock and Roll, Movies, Janis Joplin, Mick Jagger, Buddy Guy
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Movie Review: 'Shine a Light'
As Mick Jagger makes his way down a hallway and toward the stage of New York's Beacon Theatre, he appears highly focused and a touch nervous. Even though it's his gazillionth show and he has painstakingly determined the appropriate set list for the...Tags: Music, Rock and Roll, Christina Aguilera, Movies, Keith Richards
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'Shine a Light' shines
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comAs "Shine a Light" opens, it looks as if it will be an epic battle of wills -- the chaos of a Rolling Stones concert against the precision of director Martin Scorsese, the irresistible force of rock and roll against the unmovable object of filmmaking....Tags: Bob Dylan, Rock and Roll, Movies, IMAX, Mick Jagger
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2005: 'Brown Sugar' overdose
THE Rolling Stones surrendered their "world's greatest rock 'n' roll band" title long ago to U2, but on their current tour the ageless musicians are in position for the first time in years to prove they are still a relevant unit. So what happens before a...Tags: Music, Ray Charles, Rock and Roll, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
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Globetrotting Stones roll in
Newsday Staff WriterThe Rolling Stones put themselves on autopilot for about half their two-hour show Wednesday, but the sold-out crowd of 48,000 wasn't complaining. When your drummer is 65 and your guitarist recently underwent brain surgery; when you've been circling the...Tags: Music, Kanye West, Firearms, Rock and Roll, Keith Richards
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Stones show is worth the wait
Sun ReporterHigh-energy Stones show is worth the wait Thirty-six years may have passed since the Rolling Stones last played Baltimore, but on Wednesday night Mick, Keith and the boys made the passage of time seem irrelevant with a relentless, classics-heavy set of...Tags: Music, Rock and Roll, Keith Richards, Martin O'Malley, Mick Jagger
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Movie review: Stoned'
Tribune movie critic2½ stars (out of four) Nothing summons up the darker side of the '60s like a Rolling Stones record, and that's exactly what producer-director Stephen Woolley needs in "Stoned," his flashy bio-drama of original Stone Brian Jones, seen through the past...Tags: Philosophy, Neil Jordan, Winnie the Pooh, Government, Movies
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The Big Bang
Once upon a time, giants thundered across the land: Moon, Bonham, Baker, Palmer. These sweaty and indifferently groomed young men gave the world that curious and hard-to-love artifact of rock, the drum solo.
Won't somebody please hold up a flaming...Tags: Music, Petroleum Industry, Rock and Roll, Nazareth, Dan Neil
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Old tricks, new wrinkles
Times Staff WriterFor years now, there have been three givens to a Rolling Stones interview: Keith Richards will tell you what's really happening, Mick Jagger will keep his guard up, and there's no reason to talk about the new music because it's probably not very...Tags: Music, Madison Square Garden, Rod Stewart, Rock and Roll, Keith Richards
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Stones rolling into Chicago
Tribune rock criticThe Rolling Stones, the most financially successful touring act in rock history, boosted the spirits of the sagging concert industry Tuesday by announcing a 32-date tour, including three Chicago shows. The tour, which begins Sept. 5 in Boston, will play...Tags: Music, Tickets, United Center, U.S. Cellular Field, Keith Richards
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Music review, The Mekons at FitzGerald's
Tribune rock criticNostalgia does not become the Mekons. "Bless my soul, what's wrong with me? I forgot to forget to remember," they blared Saturday at FitzGerald's, closing a three-day Chicago residency that marked the British art-punk band's 25th anniversary. But if...Tags: Music, Folk Music, Salvation Army, Assault, Crimes
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